Cleveland Police Patrolmen's Union President Jeffrey Follmer called the fatal police shooting of a 12-year-old boy holding a toy gun "justified" during a recent interview on MSNBC.
A bill passed by Congress last week and pending signature by President Barack Obama would require states to report the deaths of people of all genders and races held in policy custody.
U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., has criticized the Obama administration's plans to renew diplomatic relations with Cuba, but his sentiments were not shared among millennials and scholars.
A Wisconsin judge has ruled that two young girls accused of stabbing their 12-year-old friend multiple times after being influenced by Slender Man stories are competent to stand trial.
A local meteorologist from central Texas was shot multiple times outside his studio as he headed home on Wednesday morning. Police are currently looking for the man who shot morning meteorologist Patrick Crawford, who is in stable condition.
The Governor of New York announced Wednesday during a year-end cabinet meeting the state will prohibit fracking for natural gas, citing unresolved health concerns and questionable economic benefits.
After receiving their rejection letters on Friday, almost 300 applicants received an email on Sunday saying they had been accepted to the university. Johns Hopkins sent another email soon after correcting the mistake.
While the Latino older population is expected to triple by 2050, health experts are projecting that Latinos are disproportionately represented in the older age groups most at risk of Alzheimer's disease.
A South Carolinian executed at age 14 in 1944 has been exonerated after a judge vacated his murder conviction on Wednesday. George Stinney Jr. is believed to have been the youngest person put to death in the United States in the 20th century.
The DOW and S&P 500 soared on news that the Fed will not be raising interest rates anytime soon. The Federal Reserve announced today in a statement that they are in no hurry to hike up short-term interest rates before the middle of the year.
Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev appeared in court on Thursday morning for the first time since he was arraigned on 30 federal charges in July 2013. The 21-year-old suspected terrorist appeared in the federal courthouse for a final pretrial hearing before his trial begins with jury selection next month.
A Montana homeowner was found guilty of deliberate homicide by a jury on Wednesday in the shooting death of a German high school exchange student who broke into his garage.
The Navy has finished testing on one of its first biomimetic underwater drones: the GhostSwimmer. Swimming and looking like a fish, the unmanned drone will allow the Navy to explore the technological benefits of this design as well as how it operates.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday barred the state of Arizona from denying immigrants that were granted legal status in 2012 from getting their driver's licenses, according to Reuters.
The U.S. Senate confirmed Sarah Saldaña, U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Texas, as the next director the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency, whose appointment was met with praise from legal and immigration experts and advocates.
The New York City Comptroller is looking to negotiate a settlement of a $75 million claim brought by Eric Garner's family, the New York Times has reported.
On an historic day in US and Cuban relations, Cuba released U.S. contractor Alan Gross on Wednesday while the U.S. freed three members of the infamous Cuban Five, who spent over 15 years in American jails for espionage.
